Rowan is a Senior Research Scientist and Team Leader at CSIRO Environment, where he leads the Ecosystem Modelling & Assessment team in the Sustainable Marine Futures Program. He is a marine systems ecologist with broad interests around understanding and supporting sustainable human-ocean systems. The main focus of his current work is on assessing status, trends, risks and opportunities for marine social-ecological systems and on developing strategies for climate change adaptation and nature repair. He has worked in Australia, Europe and America across theoretical ecosystem ecology, statistical and mechanistic modelling, fisheries and natural resource management, and applications of biochemical tracers to quantify trophic linkages, including several years of fieldwork above and below temperate, tropical, and Southern oceans.